The military divorce rate went down from 3.1% in 2019 to 2.8% in 2020. While that might seem like a good thing at first glance, it’s likely that the decline wasn’t due to an increase in marital harmony among service members and their spouses. A m… Read More

Stephanie Brinkley will be speaking at the American Bar Association Spring Family Law Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. Stephanie’s panel will present “Yours, Mine and Ours – The Crossroad Between Fertility and Family Law.” The panel will… Read More

Stephanie Brinkley will be speaking at the The Egg Donor Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina on Friday, April 8th, 2022. The speaking topic will be “Legal Considerations for Same Sex Parenting.” The event will be held at Wild Dunes Resort, 200… Read More

As a surrogate, you are quite literally bringing a dream to life. That is a powerful and joyful experience. In light of that, you may wonder why you would need extra support. While it’s true that the positive emotions involved in surrogacy will hel… Read More

Certain issues are a part of every divorce: division of marital property, and, if there are children, custody of those children. But what happens in marriages in which the marital “property” includes frozen embryos from IVF procedures? Is there s… Read More

Marriage can be hard. In many ways, a marriage in which one or both spouses is in the military can be even harder, with the deployments and other challenges military families face. It is no surprise that military divorce rates are slightly higher tha… Read More

Not so many generations ago, families in this country tended to stay put. Adults often worked for the same company much of their adult lives. People dated and married others in their community and settled down there. Children grew up near grandparent… Read More

As every divorced or separated parent knows, co-parenting between separate households is difficult. Parents often have different routines and rules, not to mention different opinions on larger issues, such as whether the child needs counseling or whi… Read More